Radio host lists Lincoln Park home

Eric Ferguson, co-host of the popular "Eric and Kathy" morning duo on WTMX-FM, has placed his 11-room, 6,000-square-foot mansion in Lincoln Park on the market for $2.995 million.

A far west suburban native, Ferguson, 45, and his wife bought the six-bedroom custom home in 2004 for $2.45 million.

Features in the brick and limestone house include five full baths, two half baths, two laundry rooms, a two-story dining room with a wall of windows, three fireplaces, an open floor plan, a chef's kitchen with a butler's pantry, a full media room, a sound system, an attached two-car garage with enclosed outdoor parking for a third car and multiple outdoor decks. The 27-foot-wide house, which was a spec home built in 2004, sits on an extra-wide lot.

A 9,155-square-foot vintage mansion on the Gold Coast has sold for $4.625 million.

Built in 1895 and designed by famed architect George W. Maher, the 15-room Beaux Arts-style mansion is known as the John Lewis Cochrane house. The house, which is on an oversized lot, has six bedrooms, five full baths, three half baths, crown moldings and original French leaded windows.

During the 1920s and 1930s, the mansion had several notable owners, including two executives with Armour & Co. It subsequently was cut up into apartments before being returned to a single-family home.

The mansion, which had been listed for $4.9 million, had been on and off the market since 2007, when it first was listed for $5.9 million. It was reduced to $5.3 million in 2008 and then to $4.9 million in 2009.

The home was sold by the estate of William Bass, who died in 2003. Bass had bought the mansion in the 1970s and converted it to a single-family home from an apartment house. The mansion's facade appeared in the 2000 Mel Gibson-Helen Hunt movie "What Women Want."

"The house is on a large lot, which very unusual for the Gold Coast," said listing agent Doug Smith of Prudential Rubloff.